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Offline DomBacon

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Thermostat recall?
« on: January 09, 2015, 06:20:39 pm »
My thermostat has gone, my mate works in a vw specialist garage and one of the blokes in there said his mate went to vw for a service and they fitted a new thermostat and new coil packs under a quiet recall apparently. . .
Dont know how true this is yet, anyone heard of anything???
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Re: Thermostat recall?
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2015, 06:57:40 pm »
Coil packs are well known about, but never heard of thermostats being a recall.
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Re: Thermostat recall?
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2015, 07:33:20 pm »
No recall for thermostats.

Recalls are for safety reasons

Coil packs fail = fire
Thermostat fails =  engine takes longer to warm up  :laugh:
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Re: Thermostat recall?
« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2015, 08:01:49 pm »
That's what I thought but he was very consistent with telling me I don't need to buy the part from him :/
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Re: Thermostat recall?
« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2015, 09:30:47 pm »
Afaik if you don't replace a stuck thermostat the engine will run hot which isn't good.
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